No, they don’t. Delegates do. Of course, “party bosses” themselves are elected by lower ranking people in the party, so there’s that aspect as well.
You’re lying:
The CO list of 2012 delegates and 2016 delegates reveal many of the delegates pledged to Cruz are retreaded Romney supporters.
Santorum had won the Colorado 2012 vote by 6%. The Colorado delegation did not honor the vote. Instead the majority of delegates voted for Romney.
Here are some of Romney retread delegates from the delegate lists.
Kim Ransom
Libby Szabo
Joy Hoffman
John Carson
Kent Lambert
Robin Coran
Kendal Unruh
Guy Short
Steven Hofman
Ray Garcia
Kevin Grantham
Wayne Williams
Dudley Brown
After they cheated Santorum in 2012, a huge group CO republicans quit the republican party and became independents or went with one of the other 3rd parties popular in Colorado.
The selection process for Colorado delegates is a staged show they perform every 4 years. It is performed to disguise the fact that the delegates are primarily pre-selected cohorts of the party insiders. It disenfranchises 1,000,000 voters.
Do not fail to recognize that these delegates had been pre-slated for JEB BUSH and merely functioning as placeholders until the GOPe dumps Cruz for their own boy.